The book that changed my life /
The book that changed my life /
edited by Roxanne J. Coady and Joy Johannessen.
- Advance uncopyedited manuscript.
- New York, N.Y. : Gotham Books, c2006.
- xxii, 216 p. ; 20 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction / Roxanne J. Coady -- Dorothy Allison on Toni Morrisons's The bluest eye -- Kate Atkinson on Robert Coover's Pricksongs and descants -- James Atlas on Gwendolyn Brooks's Selected poems -- Robert Ballard on Joseph Campbell's The power of myth -- Gina Barreca on Jean Kerr's The snake has all the lines -- Nicholas A. Basbanes on the Works of Shakespeare -- Graeme Base on J.R.R. Tolkien's The lord of the rings -- Jeff Benedict on The little engine that could -- Elizabeth Berg on J.D. Salinger's The catcher in the rye -- Amy Bloom on The most of P.G. Wodehouse -- Harold Bloom on John Crowley's Little, Big -- Lary Bloom on John Hersey's Hiroshima -- Chris Bohjalian on Joyce Carol Oates's Expensive people and more -- Steven Brill on Theodore H. White's The making of the President, 1960 -- Benjamin Cheever on Ernest Becker's The denial of death -- Da Chen on Alexandre Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo -- Harriet Scott Chessman on Gertrude Stein's Ida -- Brother Christopher on Thomas Merton's The seven storey mountain -- Carol Higgins Clark on Mary Higgins Clark's A stranger is watching -- Billy Collins on Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' The yearling and Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita -- Claire Cook on the Nancy Drew mysteries -- Caroline B. Cooney on Caesar's Gallic Wars -- Patricia Cornwell on Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's cabin -- Maureen Corrigan on Charles Dickens' David Copperfield -- Nelson DeMille on Ayn Rand's Atlas shrugged and more -- Tomie dePaola on Sigrid Undset's Kristin Lavransdatter -- Anita Diamant on Virginia Woolf's A room of one's own -- Dominick Dunne on Anthony Trollope's The way we live now -- Carlos Eire on Thomas a Kempis's The imitation of Christ -- Linda Fairstein on Arthur Conan Doyle's The adventures of Sherlock Holmes -- Doris Kearns Goodwin on Barbara W. Tuchman's The guns of August -- Linda Greenlaw on Sebastian Junger's The perfect storm -- David Halberstam on Cecil Woodham-Smith's The reason why -- Alice Hoffman on J.D. Salinger's The catcher in the rye -- Sebastian Junger on Dee Brown's Bury my heart at Wounded Knee -- Paul Kennedy on Geoffrey Barraclough's An introduction to contemporary history -- Tracy Kidder on Ernest Hemingways collected stories -- Robert Kurson on Ernest Becker's The denial of death -- Wally Lamb on Harper Lee's To kill a mockingbird -- Anne Lamott on Ram Dass's The only dance there is and more -- Barbara Leaming on Sigmund Freud's The interpretation of dreams -- Senator Joe Lieberman on the Bible -- Margot Livesey on Charolotte Brontèe's Jane Eyre -- Senator John McCain on Ernest Hemingway's For whom the bell tolls -- Frank McCourt on Shakespeare's Henry VIII -- Faith Middleton on F. Scott Fitzgerald's The great Gatsby -- Jacquelyn Mitchard on Betty Smith's A tree grows in Brooklyn -- Leigh Montville on Ed McBain's 87th Precinct series -- Sara Nelson on Herman Wouk's Marjorie Morningstar and Susan Isaacs' Compromising positions -- Sherwin B. Nuland on William Lewis Nida's Ab the Cave Man -- Laura Numeroff on Kay Thompson's Eloise -- Stewart O'Nan on William Maxwell's So long, see you tomorrow -- Jacques Pâepin on Albert Camus' The myth of Sisyphus -- Anne Perry on G.K. Chesterton's The man who was Thursday -- Jack Prelutsky on Robert Louis Stevenson's A child's garden of verses and more -- Ian Rankin on Anthony Burgess's A clockwork orange -- Richard Rhodes on Albert Schweitzer's Out of my life and thought and Hugh Lofting's Doctor Dolittle series -- Frank Rich on Moss Hart's Act one -- SARK on Maya Angelou's I know why the caged bird sings -- Lisa Scottoline on Frank McCourt's Angela's ashes -- Bernie S. Siegel on William Saroyan's The human comedy -- Liz Smith on Christopher Morley's Kitty Foyle and Guy Endore's Voltaire! Voltaire! -- Edward Sorel on Stendhal's The red and the black -- Jane Stern on John Barth's The end of the road -- Michael Stern on the Sears catalogue -- Alexandra Stoddard on Rainer Maria Rilke's Letters to a young poet -- Paco Underhill on C.S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower series -- Susan Vreeland on Harper Lee's To kill a mockingbird -- Kate Walbert on E.B. White's Charlotte's web -- Katharine Weber on Steven Millhauser's Edwin Mullhouse -- Jacqueline Winspear on F. Scott Fitzgerald's The great Gatsby -- The books that changed their lives : a reading list of the books selected by the contributors -- Roxanne's Very opinionated reading list -- Joy's Very opinionated reading list -- Acknowledgments.
Here are 65 spirited testimonies to the transformative power of reading from 65 distinguished contributors. Books change lives and this one examines this phenomenon. With contributors from fields as disparate as journalism, cooking and the arts, these brief and lively essays tell of the single book that changed the ways they see themselves and the world around them. Contributors include Harold Bloom, Nelson DeMille, Sebastien Junger, Wally Lamb, John McCain and Susan Vreeland.
1592402100 9781592402106
Authors, American--Books and reading.--20th century
Authorship.
Libros y lectura
Autoría
Paternidad literaria
Autores estadounidenses
Z 1039 / B724 2006
028.8
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction / Roxanne J. Coady -- Dorothy Allison on Toni Morrisons's The bluest eye -- Kate Atkinson on Robert Coover's Pricksongs and descants -- James Atlas on Gwendolyn Brooks's Selected poems -- Robert Ballard on Joseph Campbell's The power of myth -- Gina Barreca on Jean Kerr's The snake has all the lines -- Nicholas A. Basbanes on the Works of Shakespeare -- Graeme Base on J.R.R. Tolkien's The lord of the rings -- Jeff Benedict on The little engine that could -- Elizabeth Berg on J.D. Salinger's The catcher in the rye -- Amy Bloom on The most of P.G. Wodehouse -- Harold Bloom on John Crowley's Little, Big -- Lary Bloom on John Hersey's Hiroshima -- Chris Bohjalian on Joyce Carol Oates's Expensive people and more -- Steven Brill on Theodore H. White's The making of the President, 1960 -- Benjamin Cheever on Ernest Becker's The denial of death -- Da Chen on Alexandre Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo -- Harriet Scott Chessman on Gertrude Stein's Ida -- Brother Christopher on Thomas Merton's The seven storey mountain -- Carol Higgins Clark on Mary Higgins Clark's A stranger is watching -- Billy Collins on Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' The yearling and Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita -- Claire Cook on the Nancy Drew mysteries -- Caroline B. Cooney on Caesar's Gallic Wars -- Patricia Cornwell on Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's cabin -- Maureen Corrigan on Charles Dickens' David Copperfield -- Nelson DeMille on Ayn Rand's Atlas shrugged and more -- Tomie dePaola on Sigrid Undset's Kristin Lavransdatter -- Anita Diamant on Virginia Woolf's A room of one's own -- Dominick Dunne on Anthony Trollope's The way we live now -- Carlos Eire on Thomas a Kempis's The imitation of Christ -- Linda Fairstein on Arthur Conan Doyle's The adventures of Sherlock Holmes -- Doris Kearns Goodwin on Barbara W. Tuchman's The guns of August -- Linda Greenlaw on Sebastian Junger's The perfect storm -- David Halberstam on Cecil Woodham-Smith's The reason why -- Alice Hoffman on J.D. Salinger's The catcher in the rye -- Sebastian Junger on Dee Brown's Bury my heart at Wounded Knee -- Paul Kennedy on Geoffrey Barraclough's An introduction to contemporary history -- Tracy Kidder on Ernest Hemingways collected stories -- Robert Kurson on Ernest Becker's The denial of death -- Wally Lamb on Harper Lee's To kill a mockingbird -- Anne Lamott on Ram Dass's The only dance there is and more -- Barbara Leaming on Sigmund Freud's The interpretation of dreams -- Senator Joe Lieberman on the Bible -- Margot Livesey on Charolotte Brontèe's Jane Eyre -- Senator John McCain on Ernest Hemingway's For whom the bell tolls -- Frank McCourt on Shakespeare's Henry VIII -- Faith Middleton on F. Scott Fitzgerald's The great Gatsby -- Jacquelyn Mitchard on Betty Smith's A tree grows in Brooklyn -- Leigh Montville on Ed McBain's 87th Precinct series -- Sara Nelson on Herman Wouk's Marjorie Morningstar and Susan Isaacs' Compromising positions -- Sherwin B. Nuland on William Lewis Nida's Ab the Cave Man -- Laura Numeroff on Kay Thompson's Eloise -- Stewart O'Nan on William Maxwell's So long, see you tomorrow -- Jacques Pâepin on Albert Camus' The myth of Sisyphus -- Anne Perry on G.K. Chesterton's The man who was Thursday -- Jack Prelutsky on Robert Louis Stevenson's A child's garden of verses and more -- Ian Rankin on Anthony Burgess's A clockwork orange -- Richard Rhodes on Albert Schweitzer's Out of my life and thought and Hugh Lofting's Doctor Dolittle series -- Frank Rich on Moss Hart's Act one -- SARK on Maya Angelou's I know why the caged bird sings -- Lisa Scottoline on Frank McCourt's Angela's ashes -- Bernie S. Siegel on William Saroyan's The human comedy -- Liz Smith on Christopher Morley's Kitty Foyle and Guy Endore's Voltaire! Voltaire! -- Edward Sorel on Stendhal's The red and the black -- Jane Stern on John Barth's The end of the road -- Michael Stern on the Sears catalogue -- Alexandra Stoddard on Rainer Maria Rilke's Letters to a young poet -- Paco Underhill on C.S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower series -- Susan Vreeland on Harper Lee's To kill a mockingbird -- Kate Walbert on E.B. White's Charlotte's web -- Katharine Weber on Steven Millhauser's Edwin Mullhouse -- Jacqueline Winspear on F. Scott Fitzgerald's The great Gatsby -- The books that changed their lives : a reading list of the books selected by the contributors -- Roxanne's Very opinionated reading list -- Joy's Very opinionated reading list -- Acknowledgments.
Here are 65 spirited testimonies to the transformative power of reading from 65 distinguished contributors. Books change lives and this one examines this phenomenon. With contributors from fields as disparate as journalism, cooking and the arts, these brief and lively essays tell of the single book that changed the ways they see themselves and the world around them. Contributors include Harold Bloom, Nelson DeMille, Sebastien Junger, Wally Lamb, John McCain and Susan Vreeland.
1592402100 9781592402106
Authors, American--Books and reading.--20th century
Authorship.
Libros y lectura
Autoría
Paternidad literaria
Autores estadounidenses
Z 1039 / B724 2006
028.8